My Pickling Video from The Daily

About a month ago, two very nice folks drove down to Philadelphia in a rainstorm and spent a day and a half with me. We wandered around Reading Terminal Market and made multiple batches of pickles and jam. The goal was the production of two short canning videos. The first has just been posted and it is fantastic. I particularly love the stop-action animation they did of the carrots, asparagus and green beans climbing into the jars!

Hate to appear to be negative here, but must mention that when removing jars from their bath, isn’t it better to keep them straight – no tilting? In case the hot liquid or one of those beautiful spices might get into the seal.

Call me Ms Picky – it’s OK! And I have found myself doing the same thing without realizing it. Most of the water on top of the jar will evaporate, but I usually use a bar towel after they are are out of the canner to soak up any excess.

Still, it is a terrific vid! Love it, love it. Looking forward to the next one.

Fun video but I always thought it was “bad” not to have at least an inch of water above the jars in the bath…and there was no mention of having something in the pan to keep them off the bottom or is that not important?

I will add pickling to my things to do list for summer. I did small batch sour cherry jam yesterday and it was a hit. This week it’s on to strawberry vanilla jam. Sorry to say our Barnes & Noble stores are out of your book, but I’ll keep looking or may have to order online.

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This is great. I also had a question about measurements and such. It seems like there was one inch of water over the jars from your responses to other comments, but was there 1/2 inch of headspace in the jars? It doesn’t look like it from the video, and I always have trouble – especially with dilly beans – making sure there’s enough headspace. The beans while processing float about the brine and then eventually settle (mostly) back down but they are often not fully submerged throughout storage (there is probably about 1/8 of an inch of the bean that isn’t submerged). It looked like the jars in the video didn’t have 1/2 of headspace and I’m just curious about why. thanks!

Love the video!! My grandmother and my mother have been pickling vegetables like this for years BUT they never process in a water bath. I have done it both ways but find the ones that are processed come out “less crispy”. Why is the water bath required when pickling?

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